Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrives in Zurich along with his delegation. PHOTO: PMO
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Zurich on Sunday along with his delegation to attend high-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said.
According to the PMO, the Prime Minister and Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defense Forces Field Marshal Asim Munir “will participate in the high-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad MoU.”
Zurich: 21 June 2026.
Prime Minister and Field Marshal to participate in the high-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Agreement to be held in Bürgenstock, Switzerland on 21 June 2026.
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The prime minister will also hold bilateral meetings with delegations from Iran, the US, Qatar and Switzerland during his visit to Bürgenstock, where he will participate in high-level talks on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FO) said earlier on Sunday (today).
The talks were originally scheduled for Friday, but the Swiss foreign ministry said the talks did not take place and gave no details.
According to the FO, the meetings will be held “to reaffirm Pakistan’s continued commitment to dialogue and lasting peace in the region”.
The Prime Minister, accompanied by Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defense Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, left for Switzerland on Saturday night to attend the talks, which the FO described as “the first formal engagement after the signing of the Islamabad MoU on June 17, 2026”.
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The talks in Switzerland mark the first formal follow-up engagement since the signing of the agreement earlier this week. Senior delegations from Iran, Qatar and the United States are participating in the discussions.
The FO said, “Pakistan will continue to support and promote the implementation of the understandings reached between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States”.
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Highlighting Islamabad’s diplomatic role, the FO said Pakistan’s facilitation efforts reflected its “principled, balanced and constructive approach throughout the crisis”, including “hosting previous rounds of talks between the US and Iran and sustained diplomatic contacts culminating in the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding”.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz signed the ‘Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding’ as a mediator, formalizing the major diplomatic breakthrough between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Israel, which has been left out of the peace talks, has distanced itself from the US-Iran deal and continued to fight the Iran-allied Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, also raising questions about whether the deal would last.
The US and Israel launched the war against Iran on February 28, assassinating 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and military leaders on the first day. It quickly developed into a regional conflict that has killed more than 7,000 people, mostly in Iran and Lebanon; drove up energy prices; renewed inflationary pressures and sparked concerns about a major food supply crisis in developing countries.
The 14-point agreement extends a ceasefire announced in April by another 60 days, including in Lebanon, to allow the two sides to negotiate a final ceasefire. Both Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian digitally signed the memorandum in English and Farsi, US and Iranian officials said, with Iran’s foreign ministry saying the deal was already in effect as of Wednesday.
Trump signed just before a grand dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles, the site of the signing of the eponymous treaty that formally ended the First World War.
The US and Iran released the text of the Islamabad MoU, which their presidents signed on Wednesday to end their war. However, US President Donald Trump had threatened to resume the attacks and kill Iranian officials if they failed to honor their commitments.
Trump, who attended the G7 with other leaders in France, also retracted at least one of his stated justifications for attacking Iran, saying it would be “unfair” for Tehran not to have ballistic missiles after he has previously vowed to wipe them out.
“We’re going to bomb the hell out of them if they violate the deal,” Trump said of Iran at a news conference. “I don’t want them to. I want them to honor the agreement.” He also called Iranians “smart people” as U.S. and Iranian negotiators work toward a permanent ceasefire over the next 60 days that Trump said he hoped would usher in Middle East peace and lower oil prices.
Iran’s leaders did not address the new threats while celebrating the moment, releasing photographs of what is believed to be the first agreement signed by both a US and Iranian president since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979.
